i know there are several threads as to most memerable, and most shocking, but what was the very first one you went to?

the first one i went to was at Power Plant Live to see Eve 6 (freebie concert) litterally right up front.
first one i paid for was to see papa roach at the recher. boy that was a rough one, with the music blarring out of the speakers so fucking loud, crazy insane fuckers moshing, and crowd surfing. i got pushed down to the ground during "last resort" since they had started all over the floor, but thankfully, they picked me right up, and got right up to the front of the stage to yell as loud as i could the pre chorus "cut myself into pieces, this my last resort, suffication no breathing, don't give a fuck if i cut my arm bleeding

With my parents, Pete Seeger in 1964. With my friends, George Harrison 1974. Totally by myself (walked up to the box office a couple of hours after school) Black Sabbath/Aerosmith 1974.

Ah yes: Twisted Sister, who opened for Iron Maiden. I went mainly to see Twisted Sister but MAN was that guy an ahole, yelling at the crowd, turning on the houselights and yelling some more. He was one, er, Twisted Sister...

This is a good, funny thread. Makes you think of how your musical tastes change over the years.

My first concert was October 23 (I think), 1984 - Sunrise Musical Theatre in Sunrise, FL...

Cyndi Lauper .. the Bangles opened. They were virtually unknown at that point.

also, my first concert was this year.

I can't remeber which was first they were all about the same year/time 86-ish. Parents tooks me and my siblings.

Michael Jackson - "Bad" tour
the Beach Boys - post baseball game concert
the Oakridge Boys - post baseball game concert

Judas Priest Defenders of the Faith tour at Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto(1985 i think?) .

Rage Against the Machine in 99 at the Forum

Rage Against the Machine at Bayfront Auditorium in Pensacola, Fl. in July 1996. Tickets were $13 in a small venue.

Kiss 2000 Farewell show in Cleveland......Well, its 2005, and I've seen them 2 more times....

First concert was Young MC, Seduction, and Milli Vanilli on July 28th, 1990 at Jones Beach in Long Island.

KISS with Motley Crue opening for them at Universal Ampitheater in LA back in '83. It was KISS' "Creatures" tour and we had floor seats that were pretty close to the stage. They only cost $13

Ted Nugent in ~ '85 at the state fair. Nice show, he does some amazing things with the guitar.

First non-state fair shows were Blue Oyster Cult in '86, and Def Leppard in '87, both were also good.

my first show diamond david lee roth with cinderella. eat em and smile tour. loved it

HEART in 1989 in olympia

First for me was mid January of 95 (Senior year of HS), saw Helmet in a small club in Ft. Lauderdale. 2 weeks later I saw NIN (Pop Will Eat itself opened) in Orlando. My LAST was tool 2 years ago in Ft. Myers. The sound was horrible, Maynard was an ass (apparently he had a bad show in another Florida city just before, so the entire show he sang with his back to the crowd), and my ears were ringing for days. It was at that point I decided I was getting too old for concerts.

Elvis Presley, 1974, Dayton.

Mom won some tickets from a local radio station.

Chilliwack on the Opus X tour

Fleetwood Mac - Tusk Tour 1980

Sat in the last damn row of the Blasedale Arena in Hawaii. It was also my introduction to "That Smell"

The first concert I ever wanted to see was They Might Be Giants in Athens (with the almost cartoonishly bad Thumb opening) on October 2nd, 1996...freshman year of college. I'd been to concerts before that, but it was always something I'd been dragged to, never anything I wanted to attend. I really didn't start to listen to music (at least, other than using it as background noise) until just before I graduated high school. Before that, the only albums I owned were all Weird Al tapes/CDs and '80s compilations. I quickly made up for lost time, though.

Reading some of the responses, do you feel as old as I do?

Def Lepard & Ugly Kid Joe 1993

Summer of 1986....Billy Ocean and Brenda Russell.

Black Crowes at the State in Detroit

Was the first time I got high as well.

The first concert I remember attending was a 4th of July fireworks show that Richard Marx happened to play at.

The first show I sought out was the Poster Children around the same time ~ 1990.